I will take my 2 favorite pop singers from Brazil... They are also the biggest we have on the last decades... living legends level 
IVETE SANGALO
From wikipedia:
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Ivete Maria Dias de Sangalo (born May 27, 1972 in Juazeiro, Bahia) is a Latin Grammy Award-winning Brazilian Axé and MPB singer, songwriter, and occasional actress and television show host. She is one of the most popular and best-selling Brazilian female singers of the present, with six albums released with "Banda Eva",[1] and seven more albums in a solo career, with a total of over 12 million albums sold worldwide. Sangalo is most often recognized by her powerful voice, charisma and live performances. Her music is also very popular in Portugal.[2] She has received 14 nominations for Latin Grammy Awards alongside her career.
As a teenager, started to sing and play violin at events, festivals and presentations of the school where she studied. Ivete Sangalo's debut show happened in Ondina Neighborhood, Salvador, in August 1992. With that show she won the Dorival Caymmi trophy, the Grammy of Bahia music. The solo singer was once part of a group called Banda Eva, and with them she recorded six CDs and sold over four million copies.[3]
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Biggest Hits:
Festa (Party)
Sorte Grande (Greatest Luck)
Se eu não te amasse tanto assim (If I didn't love you so much)
Personal Favorite:
Berimbau Metalizado (Metalic)
MARISA MONTE
From wikipedia:
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While classically trained in opera singing, she grew up surrounded by the sounds of the Portela samba school, and combines diverse influences into her music. After failing to break through 1980s Brazilian Pop rock she went to semi-exile in Italy where she met the famous producer Nelson Motta (soon her boyfriend). Thereafter she became a hybrid of MPB diva and Pop rock performer. While most of her music is in the style of modern MPB, she has also recorded traditional samba and folk tunes, as well and songs performed by Marvin Gaye, Lou Reed and George Harrison. Much of her work has been in collaboration with musicians/songwriters Carlinhos Brown, Arnaldo Antunes, and Nando Reis, and producer Arto Lindsay. She has also worked with foreign artists such as Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Julieta Venegas. In 1996, she contributed a version of "Waters of March", in a duet with David Byrne, to the AIDS benefit compilation album Red Hot + Rio produced by the Red Hot Organization. She also collaborated with Bonga and Carlinhos Brown on the track "Mulemba Xangola" for the AIDS benefit compilation album Onda Sonora: Red Hot + Lisbon produced by the same organization. Again, in 2011, she contributed a collaboration with Devendra Banhart and Rodrigo Amarante "Nú Com A Minha Música" for the Red Hot Organization's most recent charitable album "Red Hot+Rio 2." The album is a follow-up to the 1996 "Red Hot+Rio." Proceeds from the sales will be donated to raise awareness and money to fight AIDS/HIV and related health and social issues.
Marisa Monte is unique as a Brazilian artist due to the fact that she owns the rights to all of her songs; it was the main demand to renew her contract with EMI Music.[1]
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Biggest Hits:
Amor, I love you (My love, eu te amo)
Velha Infancia (Old Childhood)
Spoiler:
you are like this,
a dream for me,
and when i don't see you.
i think of you,
from sunrise,
until i lay my head.
i like you.
i like to stay with you..
my laughter is so happy with you.
my best friend is my love.
and we sing,
and we dance
and we never tire.
of being kids,
we play,
in our old childhood.
your eyes are my bright light.
they guide me within the darkness.
your feet open my path.
i follow them and never feel alone.
you are like this,
a dream for me,
i want to fill you with kisses.
i think of you,
from the sunrise,
till i lay my head.
i like you
i like to stay with you..
my laughter is so happy with you.
my best friend is my love.
and we sing,
and we dance
and we never tire.
of being kids,
we play,
in our old childhood.
your eyes are my bright light.
they guide me within the darkness.
your feet open my path.
i follow them and never feel alone.
you are like this,a dream for me,you are like this.
you are like this,a dream for me,you are like this
Já sei namorar (Already know how to make out)
Personal Favorite:
Infinito Particular (Particular Infinity)
Spoiler:
This is the best and the worst of me
My measurement, my karat
Come, man, paint me
It's not impossible
I'm not hard to read
Do your part
I'm from here, I'm not from mars
Come, man, see me
Can't you see, it's obvious, I'm rise the flag of myself
Just don't get lost once you enter
my particular infinity
In some seconds
I'm little and giant as well
Come, man, say it
the world is portable
For those who have nothing to hide
Look at my face
It's just mistery, there's no secret
Come here, don't be afraid
The water is drinkeable
Just don't get lost once you enter
my particular infinity
Last edited by Andrenekoi; 12th June 2011 at 04:47 AM.
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